2014-06 Archive

The United Library at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary was awarded a Historical Records Preservation Grant to financially assist in the preservation and digitization of the Lucy Rider Meyer and Chicago Training School archives. Issued by the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board (ISHRAB) and the Illinois State Archives, the United Library is one of the first theological institutions in Illinois to be selected for this grant.

Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary is again the recipient of a grant given by the Bernard Heerey Family Foundation. The grant provides annual full-tuition and stipend to three students fulfilling their field education requirements as student chaplains in a hospital setting. While all M.Div. students are eligible for the scholarship, the foundation is committed to helping a diverse array of students.

Garrett-Evangelical alums have once again shown unrivaled support for their seminary. More than 300 seminaries are invited to report their fundraising statistics to the Council for Aid to Education each year, and this past fiscal year (July 2012 – June 2013), Garrett-Evangelical was ranked first in alum participation. More than 37% of the alum family made a gift to the Seminary!

Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary will welcome prominent theologian and scholar Dr. Mark Lewis Taylor during the fall 2014 semester as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Theology. Taylor has written extensively on religion, culture, and politics and holds the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Theology and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey.

Friday, May 30th, the Minnesota Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church honored former Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary trustee, Rev. Jeanne Audrey Powers, for her extraordinary service to the people and churches of the Minnesota Annual Conference. Powers was one of the first women to be ordained in The United Methodist Church in 1958.